To mark one hundred and ten years since the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will be presenting two music events to commemorate the date.
On 25 September, the date of the composer's birth, at 19:00 at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be a gala concert. It will feature young virtuosi prize-winners of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition Pavel Milyukov (violin), Alexander Ramm (cello) and Sergei Redkin (piano), as well as Mariinsky Opera soloists Anastasia Kalagina (soprano), Yekaterina Sergeyeva (mezzo-soprano) and Dmitry Voropaev (tenor). The concert will open with an early piece by Dmitry Shostakovich – Piano Trio in C Minor. That will be followed by two works composed in 1948, the most difficult period of the composer's life, and which for the next few years were works "for the drawer": the song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry and Violin Concerto No 1. The programme will conclude with the First Symphony, the triumphant premiere of which in 1925 was to be Shostakovich's first success.
At 22:00 the concert series will continue with an appearance by Denis Matsuev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. The programme includes the First Piano Concerto and the Fifteenth Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich.
In the 2016-2017 season the Mariinsky Theatre will also present a subscription series focussing on the music of Dmitry Shostakovich, which will include the operas The Nose and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and the one-act ballets Leningrad Symphony and The Young Lady and the Hooligan. On 25 September the theatre's official site will be launching an exhibition to celebrate the composer's anniversary year.
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